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Last week the Socialists, with considerably less harmony, began formulating the issues on which Nominees Thomas & Maurer will campaign. A bitter struggle resulted in what Colyumist Heywood Broun, defeated Socialist candidate for Congress and New York City alderman, wryly called his "first political victory." The convention voted (80-to-71) for repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year...
Friends of the Brown Derby insisted Mr. Smith had dictated that section of his address himself. When Governor Roosevelt was shown the two sections, he laughingly remarked: "Merely a coincidence." The flowery allusiveness of the Roosevelt speech at St. Paul moved Heywood Broun, New York World-Telegram colyumist, last week to write: "The fighting Governor is going before the country on the proposition that Thomas Jefferson was a better man than Alexander Hamilton. . . . The fearless one will eventually come out against the extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction...
...RECOVERY: THE SECOND EFFORT?Century ($3), called by able Colyumist Walter Lippmann, ?The ablest effort of this kind that I know...
...comedian and Lynne Overman (Dancing Partners) is more or less his foil. The siren is a dark mite with a great big smile, Cinemactress Lupe Velez. Her shapely shoulders are burdened with that part of the show which Mr. Lahr does not carry. Last week she inspired Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, whose employer owns the Ziegfeld Theatre, to strike off a memorable simile. Wrote Mr. Brisbane: "Thirty 'glorified' girls that stand behind her and also wriggle are compared to Lupe Velez like 30 plates of ice cream standing behind a red hot coal...
...illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...